This is truly sad to see
Every few years, it's like a broken record on this site. You all argue and type the same shyt, with different names.
Let me help you
The team known has the Dallas Cowboys have the most unique dynamic in the NFL. Most of the league has.
1. Owner
2. General Manager
3. Head Coach
The owner finances the day to day operations and the General Manager is in charge of player personnel. The General Manger is responsible for not only player personnel but also putting together the coaching staff to form a perfectly efficient power structure.
The Dallas Cowboys prior to 1989 only had ONE General Manager and ONE Head coach. Tex Schramm and Tom Landry. They only had 2 owners prior to 1989. Clint Murchison from 60-84 and HR Wright from 84-89.
When Jerry Jones bought the team, he didn't hire a GM. He hired Jimmy Johnson and Johnson build the team. They went from 1-15 to back to back super bowls by the 4th year.
But then Jerry Jones started to get jealous. He didn't like that Jimmy Johnson got all the credit, and since he worked with him throughout the entire rebuild, Jerry Jones felt he was good enough to handle it himself. Jones has always felt he could pick enough talent that any coach can come in and they would win.
AND TO THIS DAY HE STILL HAS THAT EXACT SAME MINDSET....
Only now, he's sons are older and work with him. And THEY have that same mentality. They were raised in it. And by all accounts, it's worked. Dallas routinely has winning records. The only time they didn't is when there were significant injuries to their QB.
But here's why the model will NEVER work.
Normally a GM is working to stay employed. So the coach they hire, and the players they signed are tied to said employment. He hires a head coach he trusts and then allow them to hired their own staff. That's how coaching trees are created.
That's not the case in Dallas. Since Jerry Jones is the GM, he will do dumb shyt like hire the OC first, then the Head Coach. Or keep position coaches, and hire the head coach. He can make trades and sign players without having to worrying about getting fired..... BE CAUSE HE'S THE OWNER!
AND it's only fitting that Dallas has been getting mollywopped by the 49ers. The went to a Super Bowl and were contenders with talent all over the place. Trent Baalke was hired to be the GM in 2010. He fired Mike Singletary after ONE season, because he knew it wasn't going to work and he KNEW the owners were going to hold HIM accountable. SO he hired Jim Harbaugh. But that only lasted briefly and despite winning, the GM was fired 2 years after Harbaugh left. And instead of simply hiring a head coach and try playing GM's, the Owners first Hired John Lynch and Lynch hired his head coach.
SO you see, Dallas will never win. As a GM, Jones doesn't even let his head coaches pick their staff, Since Jerry Jones has been GM, he's hired retreads and Garrett was one of his biggest fukk ups of all time. McCarthy is not a head coach that can win. the lone super bowl he won in Green Bay was because of the defense which gave up the fewest points in a season during his tenure.
The Jones family also doesn't know when to trade players for more assets, they wait too long to resign players, and basically give away leverage. There's no reason why players like Dez Bryant, DeMarcus Ware, and Zeke, shouldn't have been lifers. Tony Romo should've been allowed to get his job back. Dak was no where near no damn Tom Brady
How many weapons have Dallas put around Dak. They made his back up the OC. They got rid of players who complained about him. Moore basically ran the first decent opportunity he got.
At the end of the day, Jerry Jones is Al Davis 6.0. And even after he dies, you still got Stephen Jones who is only 59 and Jerry Jones Jr. is only 54.
The Jones family pay their support staff a ton of money to stay, and why wouldn't that. Will McClay gets paid more than most GM's and he has job security, because if a player doesn't work out, he doesn't get blamed for it. And he never played in the NFL. HE went from being an Arena League player, to Arena team coach to part time Cowboys scout in 2003, to where he's at today.
But hey, keep on keeping the dream alive. Hopefully a lot of you were old enough to witness those 90's teams. It was a special time. to everyone else.. if you're in your 20's or 30's, theres a good chance you will die before witnessing a Cowboys championship.